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Heroes III · CREATURE PROFILE

Cerberus in Heroes III: stats, cost and abilities

Cerberus in Heroes III: Melee strikes limiting the reply. Practical use, abilities, weaknesses, recruitment and 25 base health.

Quick guide: where it fits

Melee strikes limiting the reply

Cerberi combine several reachable melee targets with no retaliation.

Watch for: Hell Hounds do not yet have those two advantages.

Exact dwelling, growth and items →
Cerberus — creature appearance in Heroes 3
Source · Game artwork

Inferno · Tier 3

Cerberus

Upgraded form

How to use this creature in practice

Melee strikes limiting the reply

Cerberi combine several reachable melee targets with no retaliation. Check every affected position before moving.

Watch for: Hell Hounds do not yet have those two advantages. Three heads cannot hit three arbitrary stacks anywhere.

Timing, specific abilities and the follow-up plan

Speed 8 affects reach and order. Before Wait compare who still acts this round and who opens the next; delaying does not create a free extra attack.

  • Blocks retaliation: The victim cannot make an ordinary retaliation against this creature’s strike. Other special reactions follow their own rules.
  • Three headed attack: A melee attack can hit three enemies in front of the attacker. Their positions determine how many targets are actually struck.

Example for 10 creatures: 20–70 base damage for one ordinary hit before hero, defense, spell and ability modifiers. Recalculate surviving creatures before a subsequent hit.

What changes between base and upgraded forms
Hell Hound / Cerberus
FormAttack / DefenseDamageHPSpeedCost each
Hell Hound10 / 62–7257200 gold
Cerberus10 / 82–7258250 gold

This compares recruitment prices and base parameters, rather than final damage or an automatic price for a particular map upgrade.

Attack
10
Defense
8
Damage
2–7
Health
25
Speed
8
Shots
0
Base weekly growth
5
AI value
392
Occupied hexes
2

Cost per creature: 250 gold

Abilities and limitations

  • Blocks retaliation

    The victim cannot make an ordinary retaliation against this creature’s strike. Other special reactions follow their own rules.

  • Three headed attack

    A melee attack can hit three enemies in front of the attacker. Their positions determine how many targets are actually struck.

Heroes connected to this creature

Normal upgrade of the specialty line (1)

The normal upgrade belongs to the same specialty line in the pinned VCMI reference. Gelu’s and Dracon’s special conversions are separate from its normal upgrades.

Example in a tactical plan (3)

The creature is an example in our specific plan; this does not establish ownership or a starting army.

Reference ↗ · Ability reference configuration ↗

Where to obtain and develop this creature

This form uses the upgraded dwelling; construction cost is not the retraining price.

Growth and construction prerequisites (5)

Growth support is not another recruitment site. A prerequisite may unlock one of the recruitment forms.

Items with a specific creature relationship (2)

Read the exact item effect; the relationship may concern summoning or another function rather than a blanket buff to every form.

Reference stack cost and health

These values multiply every resource in the undiscounted reference price and full base health. Hero, equipment, spell, price and growth modifiers are excluded. This is neither final damage or battle survival nor a guarantee that the listed number is available to recruit.

Cerberus · reference values before bonuses
CreaturesTotal costBase health
1
  • 250 gold
25
5
  • 1,250 gold
125
10
  • 2,500 gold
250

Reading this profile correctly

This profile uses Complete/SoD and the cited VCMI reference. HotA, WoG and other mod changes are not added. Body footprint and attack reach are separate properties.

Base growth excludes Citadel, Castle, external dwellings and other bonuses. AI value supports army generation and evaluation; it is neither a price nor experience. Ranged and melee penalties, immunity, resistance chance and spell-damage reduction are distinct effects. Neutral dragons can have higher editor levels than some internal rules use. Campaign scripts can alter ordinary recruitment.

Numerical reference source ↗

Original roster scope

141 Heroes III Complete / The Shadow of Death creatures: 126 town forms across nine factions and 15 neutrals. The Heroes 3 Wiki stat table is pinned to revision 194544; HotA branches and balance changes are removed. Abilities additionally identify the pinned VCMI reference; its internal identifiers are not blindly used as game names. War machines, siege towers and random editor placeholders are outside this creature count. Growth is the base weekly figure; costs are per creature and stats exclude hero, town and spell bonuses.